WO1998004067A1 - Procede et appareil pour fournir a un dispositif de reseau des interfaces de gestion multiples - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to network devices, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for providing multiple management interfaces to a network device.
- Such devices generally include relatively expensive backbone devices, and relatively inexpensive network devices referred to as access devices.
- Access devices include, for example, bridges, routers, hubs, and multiplexers.
- the user interface software used to manage an access device is referred to herein as the management interface to the access device.
- the management interface Users expect the management interface to a network access device to be navigable, speedy, and safe. With respect to navigability, the interface should enable a novice user to perform routine operations. With respect to speed, the interface should permit a fluent user to meet a network problem with a timely response. With respect to safety, the software providing the management interface should enforce privilege levels and reconfirm commands which will impact service.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a typical command language interface for a router. Text prompts and user hints aid navigability and safety, while fluent users are permitted to issue terse, short-cut commands to enhance speed.
- the internal configuration of an access device consists of thousands of bytes of state information at the hardware level.
- the internal configuration of a typical multiprotocol concentrator consists of 32,000 to 128,000 bytes of state information.
- a management interface hides some of this complexity by grouping related values together into much smaller number of "configuration variables.”
- a management interface may further simplify the task of managing the device by supplying default profiles or templates for particular applications that will get a device running well enough to allow subsequent tuning.
- management software To provide system managers the power required for some tasks, management software must be capable of altering every byte of state information on a device. If the device is enhanced with a new feature, the management software must be modified to access the hardware, manage a comprehensive set of configuration variables, and provide appropriate defaults. Furthermore, the interface of the management software must continue to be as navigable, fast and safe as the interface was before the enhancements were made. For example, the management software must be updated to prompt with warnings where new configuration options conflict with pre-existing ones.
- SNMP agent may be embedded within the management software that resides on an access device.
- An SNMP agent is a computer program that mediates access to the configuration variables of a device through a Management Information Base (MIB).
- MIB Management Information Base
- a user does not interact directly with the SNMP agent. Rather, the user interacts with management software that includes a SNMP manager.
- the management software containing the SNMP manager does not reside on the same machine as the SNMP agent. Rather, the SNMP manager runs on a workstation which communicates over a network with the SNMP agent according to the SNMP protocol.
- MIB Management Information Base
- SNMP-based network management can specialize in managing the user interface while the onboard SNMP agent can specialize in checking the consistency and safety of user commands.
- the manager can use this division of labor to advantage, supporting multiple user interfaces of different styles, such as forms, dialogs and graphical displays.
- an SNMP manager may also improve the safety of the user interface. For example, where the original logic on-board the device may have warned the user of inconsistencies at the device level (e.g., when a loop-back was requested for a trunk currently in use), a workstation-based SNMP manager, having information about the surrounding network, may provide more sophisticated warnings (e.g., alerting the user that a looped-back trunk is scheduled to carry a teleconference in five minutes).
- Community names and MIB views may be used to enforce privilege classes for critical operations.
- Add-on applications are pieces of the device interface which run on a remote platform. Because add-on applications must be designed for a specific SNMP manager on a specific platform, most add-on application developers only support one or a few of the most popular SNMP managers and the most popular platforms. These add-on applications must evolve as the device evolves, track changes in the chosen SNMP Manager(s) API(s), and be ported to new network management platforms that achieve market acceptance. This often consumes disproportionate development resources. The greater the variety of management platforms in use among customers, the worse the drain on development resources.
- Figure 2 illustrates a "bilingual" access device 200 that allows access to configuration data 206 through both a text-based interface 208 and an SNMP agent 210.
- a network manager interacts with the user interface provided by software containing an SNMP manager 204.
- the SNMP manager 204 which is typically located on a workstation (network management station 202) separate from but on the same network as access device 200, communicates with the SNMP agent 210 over the network in response to the commands of the user.
- the SNMP manager 204 is mainly responsible for the navigability, network level safety and speed of the interface, while the SNMP agent 210 is mainly responsible for the device-level safety.
- the text-based interface 208 provides the network manager or an operator a second access path to the configuration data 206 of the access device 200.
- the text-based interface 208 is typically less sophisticated than the user interface of the SNMP manager 204, the text-based interface 208 resides entirely on the access device and therefore does not require a network connection. Consequently, the text-based interface 208 may be the preferred access path for certain management operations, such as field service and testing.
- SNMP-based management generally makes the task of managing network devices easier for users and eliminates the worst constraints of the text interface
- the use of SNMP-based management adds to the difficulties of system designers. For example, allowing the SNMP agent access to the set of configuration variables previously managed by the text interface compromises the safety of the system. Even if the designer supplies the SNMP agent with all of the safety logic that is explicitly coded into the text interface, some additional safety logic will not be explicitly documented because such logic is simply a side-effect of the interface design. Consequently, new code must be written to ensure safety/consistency and detect race conditions between the two paths allowed to modify the configuration of a single device.
- the interface from a central SNMP manager may be made as fast as a monolithic interface, and the graphical interface of the SNMP manager is more navigable than that of a monolithic interface.
- An object is to provide a method and apparatus to address these seemingly incompatible goals.
- the management interface of the access device is partitioned into specialized software objects with standardized protocol interfaces. By partitioning the management interface, the management interface may be more easily modified, enhanced, and customized for specific applications.
- the management interface of an access device combines an embedded SNMP agent to manage the state variables of the system, an on-board SNMP manager whose control interface is an HTTP server, and a text-based HTTP client accessible either via a Telnet connection or a physical console port.
- Figure 1 illustrates a typical command language interface for a router
- Figure 2 illustrates a "bilingual" access device that allows access to configuration data through both a text-based interface 208 and an SNMP agent;
- Figure 3 illustrates a computer network that includes two access devices configured according to an embodiment of the invention
- Figure 4 is a block diagram illustrating an access device 400 with three distinct interface layers according to an embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 5 illustrates entries for a Frame Relay trunk contained in files used by a combined HTTP server/SNMP manager to generate HTML pages for managing the Frame Relay trunk;
- Figure 6 illustrates the graphical user interface an HTTP client may generate in response to the HTML text generated by an HTTP server/SNMP manager embedded in a Frame Relay trunk.
- an access device in which an embedded text interface is a client of an embedded SNMP interface.
- the text interface does not include routines to access the configuration data of the access device directly. Rather, all access to the configuration data is performed by communicating with the SNMP agent according to the SNMP protocol. Because all access is performed through the SNMP agent, the text interface does not provide a distinct access path to the configuration data. Consequently, the security problems associated with multiple access paths are avoided.
- a device that supports an embedded SNMP agent already contains most of the code necessary to implement a simple SNMP manager. For far less development effort than that required to maintain both text and SNMP interfaces side-by-side, it is possible to implement a simple SNMP manager and include it in embedded software. Unlike the add-on applications considered above, the onboard SNMP manager need only keep step with the hardware of the device on which it runs. Unlike the monolithic text-based interface, the SNMP manager browses the MIB using the same SNMP interface as an external management workstation. The SNMP agent code, with sole access to the configuration variables, can unilaterally maintain the hardware in a consistent state.
- Figure 3 illustrates a computer network that includes two access devices 300 and 324 configured according to an embodiment of the invention.
- Access devices 300 and 324 respectively include configuration data 306 and 316, onboard SNMP agents 310 and 340, and text-based interfaces 308 and 318 combined with SNMP managers 320 and 330.
- the multiple-layer interface design of access devices 300 and 324 provides a network manager with multiple options with respect to accessing configuration data.
- a network manager may configure access device 300 by interacting with the interface provided by an SNMP manager 304 on a remote network management station 302.
- the SNMP manager 304 communicates with the on-board SNMP agent 310 according to the SNMP protocol, and the SNMP agent 310 performs all direct access to the configuration data 306.
- the network manager may interact with the on-board text- based interface 308.
- the on-board SNMP manager 320 communicates with the on-board SNMP agent 310 according to the SNMP protocol.
- the SNMP agent 310 performs all direct access to the configuration data 306.
- the network manager may interact with the on-board text-based interface 318 of one access device 324 to configure another access device 300 on the same network.
- the SNMP manager 330 communicates over the network with the SNMP agent 310 of access device 300. Again, all direct access to the configuration data 306 is performed by SNMP agent 310 in response to the SNMP messages that SNMP agent 310 receives.
- the on-board SNMP manager 320 of access device 300 is aware of the network and can provide an interface optimized for speed and navigability.
- the user interface may duplicate the look-and-feel of a text menu system, accessed by telnet or console login to the device. Such an interface guarantees a certain level of speed and navigability for users.
- add-ons for a proliferating number of dedicated SNMP management workstations are still required to give users graphical access to configuration functions.
- HTTP Hypertext Transport Protocol
- HTTP is a platform-independent protocol which separates the task of navigating data from the data itself.
- the HTTP server presents text that is formatted according to Hypertext Markup Language HTML (also referred to as hypertext).
- HTML Hypertext Markup Language
- the hypertext produced by an HTTP server is interpreted by an HTTP client (a "browser").
- HTML is a combination of plaintext and "tags.”
- Tags are embedded references to additional hypertext or to displayable objects such as bitmaps, sound files, or applications.
- the tag attributes indicate the type of object associated with the tag.
- the text that marks the beginning and/or end of a tag is referred to as an anchor. Browsers with varying capabilities interpret tags in different ways.
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an access device 400 with three distinct interface layers 422, 424 and 426, one of which includes an embedded HTTP server 414 according to an embodiment of the invention.
- Interface layer 426 includes an SNMP agent 418 and is the only interface layer with direct access to the configuration data 420 of the access device 400. Because the SNMP agent 41 is the only module that will directly access the configuration data 420, all of the device-level safety mechanisms may be built into SNMP agent 418 without introducing the security problems inherent in co-equal interfaces.
- the SNMP CLIENT INTERFACE LAYER All configuration of access device 400 is performed by communicating with SNMP agent 418 according to the SNMP protocol.
- SNMP agent 418 For example, a user could interact with an SNMP manager on a network management station. In response to the commands of the user, the SNMP manager sends messages to SNMP agent 418 using the SNMP protocol. In response to the messages, SNMP agent 418 performs changes to the configuration data 420. The SNMP agent 418 transmits responses to the SNMP manager using the SNMP protocol.
- SNMP agent 418 is not limited to interaction with a network management station. As was explained above with reference to Figure 3, the SNMP manager used to access SNMP agent 418 may reside within access device 400 itself, or within another access device on the same network as access device 400.
- THE HTTP SERVER/SNMP MANAGER INTERFACE LAYER Interface layer 424 is a combined HTTP server 414 and SNMP manager 416.
- HTTP server 424 transmits hypertext to HTTP clients that connect to HTTP server 424.
- the hypertext sent by HTTP server 424 includes text to cause the HTTP client to display a user interface with controls for configuring access device 400.
- the user interface may include many layers of hypertext "pages."
- the initial page generated for an access device is referred to as the "home page" of the access device.
- Each HTML page typically includes links which, when selected by a user of the HTTP client, cause information embedded in the currently-displayed HTML page to be sent from the HTTP client back to the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager may perform one or more operations associated with the link. For example, the HTTP server/SNMP manager may execute a script file to "set" an SNMP variable, retrieve the current value for an SNMP variable, and/or generate and transmit additional HTML pages.
- the HTML pages display current values from the configuration data 420.
- SNMP manager 416 communicates with SNMP agent 418 according to the SNMP protocol to obtain the current configuration settings.
- the HTTP server 414 embeds the values at the appropriate locations within an HTML page and transmits the HTML page to the HTTP client.
- An HTTP client generates a user interface in response to the HTML page.
- a user may interact with the interface provided by the HTTP client to specify a change to configuration data 420.
- the HTTP client transmits an indication of the user's action to the HTTP server 414 using HTTP protocol.
- the SNMP manager 416 communicates with SNMP agent 418 according to the SNMP protocol to cause SNMP agent 418 to make the changes specified by the user of the HTTP client.
- the information sent back to an HTTP server in response to selection of a link is determined by an "anchor" associated with the link that is stored in the HTML document that contains the link.
- an anchor associated with the link that is stored in the HTML document that contains the link.
- the anchor associated with a link may include a string of numbers that uniquely identify a MIB object associated with the link.
- the SNMP information sent back when a link is selected may be used as parameter values for a script that is executed in response to selection of the link. For example, the selection of a link associated with a particular MIB object may cause the HTTP client to transmit back to the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager a numeric identifier for the MIB object and a new value for the MIB object. In response, the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager may execute a script which transmits commands to the SNMP agent of a device to cause the configuration data associated with the MIB object to be changed to the specified value.
- the SNMP information sent back with the link information may include an identifier for an SNMP row.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP server queries the SNMP agent for the current values of the configuration data in the SNMP row and generates HTML text for a page to display the values for the selected SNMP row.
- An exemplary page-generation operation shall be described in greater detail below.
- the HTTP server puts an HTML anchor for each variable displayed in an HTML page.
- the anchor for a given variable contains information which specifies what table row is being displayed, the SNMP OID (i.e., Object Identifier) of the variable, and a new value for the variable. If the user selects the link associated with the anchor, the information within the anchor is sent back to the HTTP server.
- the HTTP server uses the OID and the new value to perform an SNMP "set" operation to set the appropriate configuration data to the new value.
- the HTTP server then causes the HTTP client to redisplay the page with the new value.
- Appendix I includes an exemplary HTML document that may be sent by HTTP server 414 to an HTTP client if access device 400 were a Frame Relay trunk.
- the HTML document illustrated in Appendix I causes an HTTP client to generate a user interface that enables a user to view and modify configuration parameters of a Frame Relay trunk.
- the actual interface generated by the HTTP client depends on the capabilities of the HTTP client. For example, a text-based HTTP client will display the text from the HTML fragment and allow the user to make configuration changes via keystrokes. A graphical HTTP client will provide a richer display and allow the user make changes with mouse-clicks. Figure 6 illustrates the interface that would be generated by a graphical HTTP client in response to receiving a HTML page in Appendix I from HTTP server 414. If the HTTP client is connected to the Internet, the user may request appropriate standards documentation explaining the LMI to be brought on-screen from a repository site.
- HTTP server 414 can generate HTML documents that make extremely rich displays of information, like that shown in Figure 6, available to users.
- the information that may be accessed though the interface is not limited to information stored on access device 400.
- the hypertext generated by HTTP server 414 may contain tags to data stored in support files elsewhere on the network or on the Internet.
- Such support files may include, for example, support files for graphical browsing of a product.
- Such support files might be distributed to customers on tape or CD as an added-cost feature and deployed on a storage server anywhere on the network, allowing the HTTP server interface of any access device on the network to include extensive help or detailed diagrams in its user interface, by means of tags.
- Hotspots are regions of an image which, when selected by a user, causes an HTTP server to perform specified actions.
- CGI scripts are scripts that can interact with the HTTP server.
- the interface generated by the HTTP clients that access HTTP server 414 may allow a user to query and configure access device 400 using intuitive point-and-click techniques. Consequently, network managers are not limited to a specified central SNMP Network Manager.
- the graphical interface can be implemented using Hotspots and tags that reference CGI scripts and standard -format bitmap files on a storage- server external to access device 400.
- THE TEXT-BASED HTTP CLIENT INTERFACE LAYER Interface layer 422 includes a text-based interface 410 and an HTTP client 412.
- a user may access the text-based interface either via telnet or a physical console port.
- the HTTP client 412 communicates with HTTP server 414 according to HTTP protocol.
- SNMP manager 416 communicates with SNMP agent 41 according to the SNMP protocol.
- the SNMP agent 418 accesses the configuration data 420 to perform the operation specified by the user.
- access device 400 When access device 400 is working and is connected to the network, it may be reconfigured by any HTML browser on the network, as described above.
- the embedded text-based browser 422 When a hardware, software or configuration problem makes the device unreachable from the workstation through TCP/IP, the embedded text-based browser 422 is an essential fail-safe component of the system software. Configuration, therefore, can involve a maximum of three on-board software objects: the SNMP agent, the SNMP manager/HTTP server and the HTTP client (the browser).
- the embedded browser uses the same interface to the HTTP server that an external browser would, and, to the SNMP agent, the SNMP manager object is indistinguishable from an external manager. If the device can connect over the network, its text browser can be used to query and configure any neighboring device that supports HTTP.
- An access device implementing the architecture illustrated in Figure 4 is capable of offering services to users that are not presently available on prior art access devices.
- the HTML document generated by an embedded HTTP server may include links to information at a corporate help desk.
- the information from the help desk could advise customers at any customer site attempting a particular configuration about problems associated with the particular configuration.
- the messages from the help desk would appear in the hypertext display that is generated from data sent from the HTTP server embedded in the access device being configured.
- the hypertext display that is generated from data sent from an embedded HTTP server could also contain context-sensitive help for network managers.
- the context-sensitive help could be produced from existing documentation through automatic conversion tools and made available on CD ROM or magnetic tape.
- conversion tools include, for example, LaTeX2html generally available for download from the Computer-Based Learning Unit at the University of Leeds (http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk) and RTFtohtml generally available from available for download from the Cornell Theory Center at Georgia University (http://www.tc.cornell.edu).
- the command syntax of any network device with a pure text interface allows some command sequences to be speedier than others.
- a configuration interface organized for hypertext browsing however, a single embedded HTTP server can support multiple interface topologies.
- Users employing the same type of access device in different applications can control their devices through different browser interfaces by collecting the URLs associated with various sections of the configuration interface into a custom top-level menu called a Home Page.
- the different browser interfaces may be provided in this fashion even though identical code is running on every piece of communication hardware.
- One embodiment of the invention provides an automated translation mechanism that generates HTML pages from the source MIB document. This feature, while not required by the multiple management interface mechanism described herein, adds to the maintainability and extensibility of the system.
- the automatic page generation mechanism includes a number of scripts which may run on the HTTP server. When executed, these scripts perform the function of reading the browser requests and generating the appropriate SNMP requests, if any, required to respond to the browser requests.
- the scripts also read files which are output by a MIB compiler, generate the appropriate SNMP to obtain the current MIB parameter values, and generate the HTML pages which display the current MIB values to the user.
- the generated HTML pages also include interface controls that allow the user to change the MIB values.
- One embodiment of the invention employs three specific scripts: mibpage.c, imagemapvar.c and mibscript. Mibpage.c and imagemapvar.c are written in the C programming language, while mibscript is written in the PERL programming language.
- the names and programming languages of these scripts is merely exemplary. The present invention is not limited to any particular scripts, or any particular programming languages.
- the mibpage.c script is used to output manually formatted HTML pages. These manually formatted HTML pages will usually be "home pages", which have links which lead to various sections of the MIB. Mibpage.c performs argument substitution so that later scripts will have information about which specific item is being referenced, for example port 7 or slot 3.
- the imagemapvar.c script is used to process image maps.
- Imagemapvar.c is similar to the conventional scripts for processing image maps, except that imagemapvar.c has the added capability of doing argument substitution.
- the mibscript script receives a table row from a MIB.
- Mibscript then walks through various MIB compiler output files to obtain type and range information for each MIB variable in the row.
- Mibscript then generates the appropriate SNMP to obtain the current value of the MIB variables.
- Mibscript then formats hypertext links or form entry boxes, as appropriate, to allow the user to change the value of any of the MIB variables.
- the automatic translation process is simplified by encoding enough information into the hypertext link associated with a given MIB variable that the SNMP object identifier ("SNMP OID") of the variable to be changed, as well as the new value to which it should be changed, are encoded in the URL field of the hypertext link.
- SNMP OID SNMP object identifier
- the user can select or click on the link, and the URL containing the information needed to perform the SNMP "set” operation will be sent back to the HTTP server.
- the script file receiving this URL can perform the SNMP "set” request without having any specific knowledge of the variable being changed or the semantics of the new value.
- One embodiment of the automatic translation from MIB to HTML involves some extensions to the HTML conventions in order to impose a structure onto how the MIB information is encoded into the HTML language elements.
- HTML conventions Prior to explaining specific extensions to HTML conventions, a brief description of some of the principles and conventions of HTML will be given.
- HTTP server can send text to a browser, which the browser will format and display.
- HTML In addition to the text that is displayed by the browser, HTML also supports anchors, imagemaps, scripts and forms. Each of these components shall be described in greater detail below.
- An anchor is a set of information consisting of (1) a text string or picture, and (2) a file name which is to be accessed if the text string or picture is selected. Anchors are used to describe the next "file” to be accessed, reflecting the "state" of the session. Anchors are also commonly referred to as hypertext links.
- An imagemap is a picture which is specially configured so that the pixels where the user clicks will be sent back to the server. Specifically, when a region of an imagemap is selected, a browser sends to the HTTP server a string (stored in argvf l ]) that identifies the region of the imagemap that was selected.
- a script is a program which may be executed (or interpreted) on the server system.
- scripts are used to process input and format output. For example, when a region of an imagemap is selected, the HTTP server may use a script to process the click pixels and decide on the next HTML file to use. Scripts are often identified by their path name.
- the path name of the script files for an HTTP server begins with /cgi-bin/.
- the HTTP server executes the file /cgi-bin/ ⁇ executable>.
- the specified "next file" is /cgi-bin/ ⁇ executable>/ ⁇ a>/ ⁇ b>/ ⁇ c> where a, b and c are any string which comprise a legal filename
- the / ⁇ a>/ ⁇ b>/ ⁇ c> will be passed as an environment variable to the script.
- the script may process the filename before opening the file. Thus part or all of the filename may be other state information not related to a file name.
- Some of the HTML display may comprise a form.
- a form consists of various types of buttons and text fields. Each button is assigned a NAME and a VALUE string. Each text field is assigned a NAME and the user supplies a VALUE string by typing text into the text field. The server may pre-enter text into the VALUE field of a text field.
- Form information is sent back to a script.
- the name of the script that receives the form information is specified in the HTML "form" statement. As described above, the script may be specified as /cgi- bin/ ⁇ executable>/ ⁇ a>/ ⁇ b>/ ⁇ c>.
- extensions were added to a conventional HTML server to facilitate its use in an embedded SNMP- HTML system. These extensions are implemented in script files which are part of the HTML-SNMP system. These scripts implement inline commands, parameters, parameter substitution and random number substitution. Each of these extensions shall be described in greater detail below.
- the format of the file string passed to a script file may be modified to pass additional information. It is then up to the script file to unmodify the file name in order to be able to access the desired file.
- the filename is modified in systematic ways to allow additional information to be passed between the HTTP server and HTTP client.
- One technique for modifying the filename is by appending inline commands to the filename. According to one embodiment, these inline commands begin with a /- followed by the specified command (optionally with the command's arguments) and are terminated by the next / character (or the end of the file name).
- Some examples of the use of the inline commands are /-conf, /-newkey /-args and /-rnd. These inline commands are described in more detail hereafter.
- the SNMP-HTML system is also modified to allow the use of general arguments.
- General arguments are used to pass the current "state" of various values from the HTTP client back to the HTTP server. These general arguments are used as call-by-value numeric subroutine parameters. These parameters specify which specific MIB item is referenced, for example slot 7 or port 1. As a further example, slot 3 port 2 would cause the arguments 3 and 2 to be passed as the general arguments to the "configure port" page.
- Arguments may be specified in one of two formats. Specifically, arguments may either appear at the end of the file name, as a dot separated list, or as a /-args command with a dot separated list. The following are examples of arguments for an input to the configure-framerelay-connection page for slot 3 port 2 DLCI 100:
- the server script When arguments are passed into the server script, the server script makes use of those arguments through argument substitution. As described above, both the mibpage.c and the imagemapvar scripts perform this substitution. As the server script reads the .html or .map file, the server script will look for $ ⁇ number>. The server script will substitute argument ⁇ number> for that string. Thus for the above situation, the title or banner section of the .html or .map file to configure the frame relay connection could be:
- Argument substitution also works in passing arguments to the next page.
- an anchor's file specification on the configure frame relay connection page might invoke a configure connection attribute page passing on the same arguments that the configure frame relay connection page was passed using:
- an embedded HTTP server/SNMP manager such as interface layer 424 supports the following inline commands: /-md ⁇ random_number> - this command is used to hold a random number as part of the filename. This field is stripped off the end of the file name, but is otherwise ignored. This command only provides a place for the random number to appear in the file name. /-conf ⁇ dot separated string>/ or /-conf-get/ - The conf command is used to tell the mibscript script that the script should perform an SNMP "set" operation that the user has requested before the script generates any new output.
- This command is used when a user has requested that the item whose object identifier (OID) is passed as the dot separated string should be set to the value which is the last dotted item.
- the /-conf-get format shows that the configuration item will be passed as a "GET" style form so the mibscript script should read and parse the input (as environment variable QUERY_STRING).
- the /-conf-get is used when there is a form on the screen.
- the forms are generated by the mibscript script based on MIB information.
- the new key command tells the mibscript script not to read any file, but to generate a form to allow the user to enter a new numeric key.
- a key is the indexing item to a table row, and the new key command allows the user to generate a new row in the table.
- the new key command used to generate a new row in a table which can have a variable number of rows, for example, a table that lists connections on a port. Each new connection is keyed by it's local end DLCI, which, being the local end frame relay address of the connection, provides a unique numeric value for each connection.
- the new key command will generate the form to allow the user to enter a new DLCI.
- the file specified with the newkey command is not opened, but the same filename is passed as the file to reference when the form is sent back to the HTTP server for parsing.
- the new row is created if it did not exist.
- the new row is created by setting an unused column in that row to a fixed value. Then the configure page for that item is invoked, with the parameter list that was included with the
- /-args - provides one way of specifying general arguments for the current page being displayed.
- An alternative way of specifying the arguments is to append the arguments on to the end of the file name as a dotted string of numbers as described previously. If there are no parameters, the /-args notation must be used, since there is no way to specify no parameters using the "appending" technique, /-back - specifies where the backlink should point. The rest of the URL specifies the URL backlink, including the /-args for the backlink.
- the /-back inline command is useful to allow a level or a cgi script to construct the backlink for areas to which it links the user, /-definition - identifies a request for the server to display the text of the description field of the MIB source file for the given object name.
- MIB Management Information Base
- MIB structures are composed of MIB variables and tables.
- Each MIB table may be represented as a table of rows and columns where the rows represent the instances of objects, and the columns represent individual configurable parameters.
- a table row represents a group of parameters and status for a certain configurable object in a system. For example, a table row could be used to hold all parameters and status for a frame-relay-port, or an ATM-port.
- a MIB table corresponding to the MIB text shown in Figure 5 could be represented as a table with some of the columns and rows shown in Table 1.
- Each Table has an object identifier (OID) which can be expressed as A. B.C.
- a table entry has an OID A.B.C.l.
- two indexes are used to specify each instance.
- Each cell (i.e. each configurable parameter) of Table 1 would have an OID of A.B.C.col.rowl.row2.
- clocktype for port 2.1 has an OID of A.B.C.3.2.1.
- MIB VALUE FORMATS The cells of a MIB table may hold different types of values.
- the most common type of values for configuration variables are integers and octet-strings. Integer values may be of two types, a pure number (which may have a low and high bound) and a list of number/value (enum) pairs. The enum pairs are used to assign meaningful labels to values.
- ClockType for a frame relay port will have the values:
- an integrated HTTP server/SNMP manager preferably supports three general types of configurable or status values: Integer (with or without a range), Integer with enum list of names and values, and Octet Strings.
- Integer with or without a range
- Integer with enum list of names and values preferably supports Octet Strings.
- Octet Strings preferably supports three general types of configurable or status values: Integer (with or without a range), Integer with enum list of names and values, and Octet Strings.
- the integrated HTTP server/SNMP manager transmits "pages" of HTML text to HTTP clients to cause the clients to display the current configuration data of the access device on which the HTTP server resides and to allow the user to specify changes to the configuration data.
- Each page of html is a presentation of a configurable or statusable object.
- each page of HTML generated by the integrated HTTP server/SNMP manager contains one table row of information.
- each page has several sections.
- Each section displays information associated with one configurable parameter or one status item. Specifically, each section includes the name of the item and the current value of the item. If the item is a configurable item composed of enum name/value pairs, then the section will also include the names of the available settings. If the item is a configurable item which is a number range or an octet- string, then the section will include a form entry that initially contains the current setting.
- the item name is a hypertext link to the definition of the item.
- the names of the potential settings for enum name/value pairs are hypertext links which, when selected, will actually cause that setting to become the current setting.
- the configuration data associated with the form entry is set to the new value in the form entry.
- Figure 6 illustrates the display generated by an HTTP client in response to receiving an HTML page from an HTTP server embedded in a device with a Frame-Relay port.
- a combined HTTP server/SNMP manager generates HTML text for an access device based on (1) information from an SNMP client embedded in the device and (2) information contained in files " ⁇ filename>info.dat” and " ⁇ filename>.defs" generated by the SMIC-SNMP MIB Information Compiler available from Carnegie Mellon University and other sources.
- Figure 5 shows the information contained in these two files that was used to generate the display shown in Figure 6. The operations performed by a combined HTTP server/SNMP manager to generate the HTML text that produced that screen display illustrated in Figure 6 shall now be described.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager receives from the HTTP client a request to display the table entry for Frame-Relay-Local-Port- Configure-Entry with indexes 2,1.
- the MIB name for the requested entry is frLportCnfEntry.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager finds and reads the line from the file " ⁇ filename>info.dat" that indicates the OID for the indicated table item.
- the OID for frLportCnfEntry is 1.3.6.1.4.1.351.100.4.2.1.1.1.
- the line 704 in Figure 5 is the line in ⁇ filename>info.dat that indicates the OID for frLportCnfEntry.
- the OID is used to find and read the lines from the file " ⁇ filename>.defs" which contain information about the table entry.
- the lines in " ⁇ filename>.defs" that correspond to frLportCnfEntry include lines 706, 708, 710, 712, 714 and 716.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager determines that there are 2 indexes, Port Index, and Slot Index, associated with frLportCnfEntry.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager processes the entry name frLportCnfEntry by adding spaces before each word, and replacing some abbreviations with their equivalent words. At this point, the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager may generate the HTML text which produces the banner line 802 of screen display 800.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager continues searching the ⁇ filename>.defs file for entries which contain frLportCnfEntry. ⁇ number>. These entries constitute columns within the MIB table.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager next encounters lines 708 in the ⁇ filename>.defs file.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager Based on the index values that were received from the HTTP client as part of the request, the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager knows that the value of the first index is 2. The combined HTTP server/SNMP manager processes the column name by adding spaces and expanding abbreviations. The combined HTTP server/SNMP manager then generates the HTML text that will cause an HTTP client to display the column name along with its associated value. Section 804 of screen display 800 illustrates the display that may be generated by an HTTP client in response to this HTML text.
- the column name (e.g. "Frame Relay Local Port Configure Slot) is displayed as a hypertext link.
- a user may click on the name of a column to retrieve the definition of the column.
- Pseudo-code to create such a hypertext link for the "Frame Local Port Configure Slot" column name is:
- HTTP server would generate:
- the HTTP server would then generate the following text to list the value: ⁇ UL>
- lines 708 are the next two lines with frLportCnfENtry. ⁇ number> from the ⁇ filename>.defs file. Based on the information contained in lines 708, the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager generates the following HTML text:
- the value of the "port" index (i.e. 1 ) was received from the HTTP client as part of the initial request.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager generates the HTML text:
- an HTTP client would generate section 806 of screen display 800.
- the four lines (lines 712) in the ⁇ filename>.defs file that follow the lines for the Port index column (lines 710) correspond to another field ("frLportClockType") in the MIB table. Note that the %e lines immediately follow the main entry line.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager determines that the value associated with the frLportClockType field is an integer value, with name value pairs.
- the ODD of the frLportClockType field is the OID of the frLportCnfEntry that was previously read from the ⁇ filename>info.dat file, with .col.slot.port appended the end.
- the OID for the frLportClockType field is 1.3.6.1.4.1.3 1.100.4.2. l . l . l .col.slot.port, or 1.3.6.1.4.1.351.100.4.2.1.1.1.3.2.1 .
- the value for the frLportClockType field is configurable (writable).
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager sends a query to the SNMP agent to retrieve the current value for the frLportClockType field. For the purpose of explanation, it shall be assumed that the SNMP agent returns the value "1.”
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager generates hypertext to display the name of the frLportClockType field using the name expansion techniques described above.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager also generates HTML text to list the three possible values for the field, where the current value is displayed in boldface. The following is pseudo-code to generate the two possible values that are not the current value :
- Section 808 of screen display 800 is an example of the interface that an HTTP client would generate based on this HTML code.
- the lines 714 in the ⁇ filename>.defs file that follow the lines related to the frLportClockType (712) correspond to an item entitled "OperStatus.”
- the information contained in lines 714 indicate that the data type for OperStatus is also name value pairs, but that OperStatus is a status item, and is not writable.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager queries the SNMP agent to get the current value for the OperStatus item. It shall be assumed that the SNMP agent returns the value "1.”
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager generates HTML code to display the name and current value of the OperStatus item.
- the HTML code may be:
- Section 810 of screen display 800 represents the information that could be displayed by an HTTP client in response to this code.
- the lines 716 in the ⁇ filename>.defs file that follow the lines related to the OperStatus item (lines 714) contain frLportCnfEntry. ⁇ number> and correspond to an item entitled "frLportPolVerTmr.”
- the information in lines 716 indicates to the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager that the frLportPolVerTmr item is an integer with a valid range of 5-30.
- the OH) of the frLportPolVerTmr item for relevant row is 1.3.6.1.4.1.351.100.4.2.1.1.1.5.2.1 .
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager transmits a query to the SNMP agent to retrieve the current value of the frLportPolVerTmr item. In the present example, the current value is 5.
- the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager generates HTML text to create a form block and a form entry which says:
- Section 812 of screen display 800 represents the information that could be displayed by an HTTP client in response to this code.
- the line (line 718) in the ⁇ filename>.defs file that follows the lines 716 related to the frLportPolVerTmr item corresponds to an item entitled "frLportDescrip.”
- the frLportDescrip item has no %e lines.
- the information in line 718 indicates to the combined HTTP server/SNMP manager that the frLportDescrip item is a description field which is configurable, and that the value type of the field is an octet string.
- the HTML text used to handle octet string is similar to that used for integers, except that the input field of the form is called "s ⁇ oid>" instead of "n ⁇ oid>” to indicate that the input field should be treated as a string instead of a number.
- a ⁇ FORM> command is not needed, since one was emitted for the previous section, and only one ⁇ FORM> command is needed per HTML page.
- the specific HTML text generated by the HTTP server for the frLportDescrip item is
- Section 814 of screen display 800 represents the information that could be displayed by an HTTP client in response to this code.
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